A Political History of Big Science : The Other Europe (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

Cramer, Katharina C.

Springer Nature Switzerland AG（2020/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 241 p.
• 商品コード 9783030500481

Full Description

This book investigates the political history of Big Science in Europe in the late twentieth century and the early twenty-first century, characterised by the founding histories of two collaborative, single-sited facilities namely the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France and the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser (European XFEL) in Schenefeld, Germany. Under the heading of the other Europe, this book presents the history and politics of European Big Science as an alternative road to (Western) European integration besides the mainstream political integration process of the European Economic Community and the European Union. It shows that Big Science has a role to play in European politics and policymaking and that the crucial and unavoidable symbiosis between science, technology and politics brings the creation of Big Science projects back to geopolitical realities. 

Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction and Framework .- Chapter 2: Historical Viewpoints on Collaborative Large-Scale Research in Europe.- Chapter 3: Establishing the First Collaborative Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Europe: The Founding History of the ESRF (1977-1988).- Chapter 4: Founding the European XFEL: The Establishment of a Collaborative Free-Electron Laser, 1992-2009.- Chapter 5: Conclusion and Outlook.